Nasa is preparing for a huge announcement from its plant-hunting telescope. It has said only that it will brief the press on Thursday and that the discovery has been made by the Kepler space telescope. It also said that Google has been involved in the bre

U.S. retail pharmacy CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) is reportedly nearing a deal to buy Aetna (NYSE:AET), one of the nations largest health insurance companies, which provides coverage for more than 46 million Americans.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany created simulations of multiple nearby exoplanets that have the potential to support life, including Proxima b and TRAPPIST-1d. The post Exoplanet Atmospheres Could Obscure Signs of Life a

Reports are piling in from afar that Windows Update in Win7 is broken. My first sighting was late Sunday afternoon, when KarenS posted on the AskWoody Lounge : When I clicked on the Windows Update icon today to start the updates it said that my computer w

With all the data thats constantly sent and received by our phones, theres been an ever-increasing focus on combating viruses, malware, and other online attacks, to the point that we sometimes forget whats going on in the real world. But good physical sec

The boundary between the Earth's outermost layer, the crust, and the underlying mantle is speckled with mysterious, blob-like regions that cause volcanic activity called ultralow-velocity zones. Scientists may have determined where they came from.

Intel has released a new set of updates for the Intel Management Engine. There are multiple significant security vulnerabilities in the engine that this should address, once OEMs make fixes available. The post Intel Patches Major Flaws in the Intel Manage

Researchers have hypothesized that the universe contains "dark matter." They have also posited the existence of "dark energy." These two hypotheses account for the movement of stars in galaxies and for the accelerating expansion of the uni

(Phys.org)—NASA's prolonged Kepler exoplanet-hunting mission, known as K2, has revealed the presence of another "super-Earth" alien world. The newly found planet, designated EPIC 246393474 b (or C12_3474 b), is more than five times more